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Camille Claudel 1915

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 35m
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6.5/10
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Juliette Binoche in Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
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Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit fro... Read allWinter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

  • Director
    • Bruno Dumont
  • Writers
    • Paul Claudel
    • Camille Claudel
    • Bruno Dumont
  • Stars
    • Juliette Binoche
    • Jean-Luc Vincent
    • Alexandra Lucas
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    • Director
      • Bruno Dumont
    • Writers
      • Paul Claudel
      • Camille Claudel
      • Bruno Dumont
    • Stars
      • Juliette Binoche
      • Jean-Luc Vincent
      • Alexandra Lucas
    • 14User reviews
    • 95Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche
    • Camille Claudel
    Jean-Luc Vincent
    Jean-Luc Vincent
    • Paul Claudel
    Alexandra Lucas
    • Nursing Home Resident
    Jessica Errero
    • Nursing Home Resident
    • (as Jessica Herrero)
    Christiane Blum
    • Nursing Home Resident
    Armelle Leroy-Rolland
    • La jeune soeur novice
    Claire Peyrade
    • Pensionnaire bain
    Myriam Allain
    • Pensionnaire entravée
    Régine Gayte
    • Soeur Régine
    Nicole Faurite
    • Soeur Nicole
    Myriam Laloum
    • Nursing Home Resident
    Daniele
    • Nursing Home Resident
    Florence Philippe
    • Soeur Florence
    Eric Jacoulet
    • L'interne
    Marion Keller
    • Mlle Blanc
    Robert Leroy
    Robert Leroy
    • Le médecin
    Sandra Rivera
    • Soeur Sandra
    Christelle Petit
    • Soeur Christelle
    • Director
      • Bruno Dumont
    • Writers
      • Paul Claudel
      • Camille Claudel
      • Bruno Dumont
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    9paulcreeden

    The boredom of insanity.

    My high respect for Juliette Binoche's technique and talent has been bolstered by watching her performance as Camille Claudel in this film. The film itself presents a stunning vision of mental illness and its treatment in the age prior to advanced psychotropic drugs. I am a registered nurse and worked for ten years with very symptomatic psychiatric patients in hospital. Ms. Binoche's subtle performance captures the painful boredom of confinement, both physical and mental. Confined mentally by her anxiety and paranoia, Camille is sealed off from satisfying human contact with the sane, while being tortured by the attentions and needs of those more disabled than herself. The well-meant attempts of nuns to engage her with those whom she fears come across as nearly sadistic. This subtlety marks the film as exceptional in my opinion. The appearance of the religiously fanatic and equally disturbed brother, Paul Claudel, who functions as her jailer, adds a feminist sensitivity to the film. Camille's powerlessness is largely feminine in her sexist world. The interplay between religion and confinement, physical and mental, is also brought to light through Paul Claudel's obsessive grandiosity as he converses with his god. Who are sane or insane? The depressed nuns? The grinning abbot? The pompously righteous brother? Camille hoping for release? No answers are given, in typically French fashion. But this film is well worth the time and reflection.
    6SnoopyStyle

    waiting

    Camille Claudel (Juliette Binoche) was born in 1864. She was a sculptress and also Rodin's mistress for 15 years. She became a recluse after breaking up with him. With the death of her father in 1913, her family confines her to Montdevergues Asylum near Avignon in 1915. She is paranoid about being poisoned, fears persecution from Rodin and thinks her family is greedy for her inheritance.

    There is a lot of waiting for something to happen. It's funny that Camille claims that they're trying to bore her to death. The movie gets that point across very well. Juliette Binoche is amazing. The scene where she lays out all of her persecutions to her doctor is electric. However, it's only one scene and one great actress. It's not more than that.
    JohnDeSando

    You'll demand of yourself to know more about brother and sister.

    "There is something sadder to lose than life – the reason for living." Paul Claudel, poet, playwright, diplomat and younger brother of Camille.

    Camille Claudel 1915 is not The King of Hearts, a lyrical 1966 drama about a WWII French asylum in a town about to be invaded by Nazis. Claudel is decidedly not lyrical except for its exceptionally artistic cinematography dominated by trees that look like sculptures and buildings ancient with secrets.

    It's a somber but fascinating three-day narrative about artist Camille Claudel's confinement in a madhouse while she is awaiting her famous mystic-poet brother, Paul, to visit her.

    Previous to 1915, Camille had been the student and lover of Auguste Rodin, the most famous French sculptor of his time and one of the greatest in the history of civilization. Her incarceration was due to her paranoia in general about his alleged plot to poison her and her schizophrenia, both reflected after breaking up with Rodin in her smashing her sculptures in her own studio.

    This film deals little with Rodin but much with her brother, who refused her entreaties, and those of the mental hospital staff, to release her. His chilling visitation to her is redolent of his reliance on a mystical relation with God and certainty that she not be released to go home. The introductory quote suggests he may not have adhered to his own philosophy by ignoring the signs that she was sane and the reality of denying her a reason to live.

    This stark film concentrates mostly on her lonely struggle to protect herself from the plot to poison her and her loss of her sculptures and tools. Her artistry is supplanted by boiling potatoes and avoiding crazed fellow inmates. She says in one of her letters, "Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering….I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures." The movie is static but intensely suggestive through the brilliant Binoche's expressions of wisdom and isolation.

    It's not hard to sympathize with an artist robbed of her livelihood and family. That she may truly be schizophrenic and paranoid is always possible; however Binoche's humanity tips the scale in favor of Camille's sanity and the world's indifference. As a woman and an artist in the shadow of Rodin, she is doomed to second-class citizenship.

    Camille will spend almost three decades without hope: "Sadder than to lose one's possessions is to lose one's hope." Paul Claudel
    7Sergeant_Tibbs

    More than worth watching for Juliette Binoche.

    The only other Bruno Dumont film I've seen is the bizarre and shocking Twentynine Palms so knowing Camille Claudel 1915 is about an insane asylum, it's difficult to not expect something that will rock me to my core. However, Camille is surprisingly restrained. While this feels like a mature approach at times, it can too often feel like it's too weak on its themes of religion, sanity and art when there's such potential. A little more focus and clarity could've saved what would be a great film. What ends up making the film is Juliette Binoche's committed performance that provides a unique perspective into a personal hell. She certainly deserves to be called one of the best actresses of all-time and this just confirms it further. It's beautifully shot and constructed, but then this leads to it feeling too measured and thus too forced when it could've been much better if it was allowed to breathe naturally. It's a very interesting film, but I can't help that it needn't been as empty as it was.

    7/10
    9howard.schumann

    Juliet Binoche delivers a masterful performance

    Nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin, Camille Claudel, 1915, the latest film by French auteur Bruno Dumont, is arguably his best realized and most accessible work since La Vie de Jesus and L'humanité in the late 1990s. Juliet Binoche delivers a masterful performance as sculptor and graphic artist Camille Claudel, mistress of Auguste Rodin, who was confined to an asylum at Montdevergues near Avignon in 1914 after an emotional collapse. Derived from Camille's medical records and private letters to her brother, poet and staunch Catholic Paul Claudel (Jean-Luc Vincent), the film takes place over a period of three days in the asylum where we experience the oppressive nature of Camille's routines, lightened only by the inmates attempt at performing the play Don Juan.

    Although Dumont uses mentally-disabled patients and their nurses as actors, there is no hint of exploitation and they are only used to draw a sharp contrast between Camille and the seriously ill. Considered to be a great but unrecognized feminist artist (usually only discussed in relation to Rodin), Camille is filled with despair and depression at her confinement but looks forward with anticipation to the impending visit from Paul. Though much of the film has a strong impact, the sequences in which Camille pleads with her doctor (Robert Leroy) and with Paul for her release reach the heights of Dumont's consummate artistry.

    In spite of the fact, however, that the head doctor feels she could be re-integrated into society, her mother and self-absorbed brother ignore her pleas and refuse to relinquish their tight control. Though Camille's paranoia is evident in these scenes (she insists on preparing her own food for fear of being poisoned), the power of Ms. Binoche's performance allows Camille's intelligence and true stature as an artist to shine through. Austere and unforgiving in the mold of Alain Cavalier's Therese, Camille Claudel, 1915 can be compared to the films of Robert Bresson in its long silences, spiritual depth, and uncompromising integrity. Viewing can be a harrowing and uncomfortable experience, but the same can also be said about many great works of art.

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    • Trivia
      The French culture magazine 'Transfuge' named Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) the No.1 film of 2013.
    • Crazy credits
      Loosely inspired by the works and correspondence of Paul Claudel and correspondence of Camille Claudel.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Conversations avec... (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Avec Bidasse
      Music by Henri Mailfait

      Lyrics by Louis Bousquet

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    • Release date
      • March 13, 2013 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Juliette Binoche: The Art of Being - Official Fansite
      • Official Facebook
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Камілла Клодель, 1915
    • Filming locations
      • Saint-Paul-de-Mausole Monastery, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France(asylum)
    • Production companies
      • 3B Productions
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • C.R.R.A.V. Nord Pas de Calais
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    • Budget
      • €3,200,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $35,296
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,106
      • Oct 20, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $660,355
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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